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Phricodus bessaci Villiers 1959

Description

Phricodus bessaci Villiers, 1959

Phricodus bessaci Villiers, 1959: 1221; Phricodus pakistanensis Hamid, 1974: 303; Phricodus echinocoris Abbasi, 1986: 123.

Distribution in Iran. Hormozgan, Kerman (Hoberlandt 1997), Iran (no locality cited) (Rider 2006). General distribution. Eremian: Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan; in tropical Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, Sudan, Chad.

Host plants. Seems to live on Boraginaceae and particularly on Heliotropum (Derjanschi & Péricart 2005), in Iran on H. persicum (Hoberlandt 1997). From the whole material of P. bessaci collected in Iran, 54% belong to macropterous and 46% to brachypterous specimens of different stages (Hoberlandt 1997).

Notes

Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3837 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3837.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286722

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Anacardiaceae
Genus
Phricodus
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Sapindales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Villiers
Species
bessaci
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phricodus bessaci Villiers, 1959 sec. Ghahari, Moulet & Rider, 2014

References

  • Hoberlandt, L. (1997) Results of the Czechoslovak-Iranian entomological expeditions to Iran 1970, 1973 and 1977; Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae, Cydnidae, Scutelleridae, Pentatomidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 44 (1995), 181 - 293.
  • Rider, D. A. (2006) Family Pentatomidae. In Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Volume 5. Pentatomomorpha II. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xiii + 550 pp. [Article: 233 - 402].
  • Derjanschi, V. & Pericart, J. (2005) Hemipteres Pentatomoidea euro-mediterraneens. Vol. 1: Generalites. Systematique. Premiere Partie. Faune de France, 90. F. F. S. S. N. ed., Paris. 494 pp.